Lynch brigade debate: Cow-cracy vs democracy?

Pronouncing its verdict on a petition filed by Mahatma Gandhi's great grandson Tushar Gandhi, the Supreme Court today termed lynching as "horrendous acts of mobocracy" and directed the Centre and state governments to take "preventive, remedial and punitive measures" to curb it "with iron hands".

Dictionary meaning of Lynch says, "kill someone for an alleged offence without a legal trial."

The word "lynching" originated in mid-18th century America. Origin of "lynching" is traced to two people named Charles Lynch and William Lynch, who lived in Virginia in the United States.